Personalizing the weba tool for empowering end-users to customize the web through browser-side modification

  1. ALDALUR CEBERIO, IÑIGO
unter der Leitung von:
  1. Óscar Díaz García Doktorvater/Doktormutter

Universität der Verteidigung: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 01 von Dezember von 2017

Gericht:
  1. Antonio Vallecillo Moreno Präsident/in
  2. Arantza Irastorza Goñi Sekretär/in
  3. Juan Maria Hernandez Nuñez Vocal
  4. Marco Antonio Alba Winckler Vocal
  5. Juan Manuel Murillo Rodríguez Vocal

Art: Dissertation

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Zusammenfassung

Web applications Web applications delegate to the browser the final rendering of their pages. Thispermits browser-based transcoding (a.k.a. Web Augmentation) that can be ultimately singularized for eachbrowser installation. This creates an opportunity for Web consumers to customize their Web experiences.This vision requires provisioning adequate tooling that makes Web Augmentation affordable to laymen.We consider this a special class of End-User Development, integrating Web Augmentation paradigms.The dominant paradigm in End-User Development is scripting languages through visual languages.This thesis advocates for a Google Chrome browser extension for Web Augmentation. This is carried outthrough WebMakeup, a visual DSL programming tool for end-users to customize their own websites.WebMakeup removes, moves and adds web nodes from different web pages in order to avoid tabswitching, scrolling, the number of clicks and cutting and pasting. Moreover, Web Augmentationextensions has difficulties in finding web elements after a website updating. As a consequence, browserextensions give up working and users might stop using these extensions. This is why two differentlocators have been implemented with the aim of improving web locator robustness.